Why is it so hard to buy safe, non-toxic pajamas for our children? In a perfect world, maybe all of our clothing could be organic. But when it comes to pajamas, that's far from the only concern. For over 50 years, various types of children's clothing have been required to be flame resistant. Most of the time, that's done through the use of chemical flame retardants. Those chemicals can off-gas into your children's faces all night, or may even seep through their skin. Either way, it's the … [Read more...]
About Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship
Katie Kimball, CSME is a trusted educator and author of 8 real food cookbooks. She is passionate about researching natural remedies and making healthy cooking easier for busy families. She’s been featured on media outlets like ABC, NBC and First for Women magazine as well as contributing regularly on the FOX Network.
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Over the last 10 years, Katie has spoken prolifically at conferences, online summits and podcasts and become a trusted authority and advocate for children’s health.
Busy moms look to this certified educator for honest, in-depth natural product reviews and thorough research. She often partners with health experts and medical practitioners to deliver the most current information to the Kitchen Stewardship® community.
In 2016 she created the #1 bestselling online kids cooking course, Kids Cook Real Food, helping thousands of families around the world learn to cook.
A mom of 4 kids from Michigan, she is a Certified Stress Mastery Educator and member of the American Institute of Stress.
Baby Steps for HEALTHY Emergency Food Storage
Unless your home is completely fireproof, will never flood, and you can be assured that the economy will be perfectly able to support you every day for the rest of your life, you might want to be ready for something weird to happen. It's a surprise when it does – that's why it's called an emergency. Those of us who know how to make things from scratch, buy in bulk to save money, and have the ability to preserve the harvest might not be thinking about what we do as food for emergency … [Read more...]
HEALTHY Long-Term Food Storage Options
Storing food for emergencies is an important job. What is the best method to preserve food? I've already covered how to store grains, long-term storage of meat, protein, and oils, and the longest-lasting vegetables. Today, we'll cover preserving food naturally. I'm not ready to spend hours per month checking my food stores, rotating supplies, and making sure I'm ready for anything. I just want to feel a little more ready for something. My goal in the preparedness series is to … [Read more...]
Storing Grains and Storing Flour Long Term
Storing flour long term is an important part of emergency preparedness. Storage for grains can last for years if you do it correctly. Learn how to store flour and other grains. In The Long Winter, a book in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the family ends up in dire straits, trapped in a tiny new town with very few food stores, and no trains until spring. There's a terrible blizzard about every 2-3 days that lasts 3 days, and no one can go anywhere to get food. They … [Read more...]
Butternut Squash Gluten-Free Biscuit Recipe (Dairy-Free and Vegan Option)
Squash are never a uniform size, are they? Funny looking vegetables already, they can range from 1 to 5 pounds. That means when I cook a squash and puree it, I never know quite how many cups I will get. I'm often making yummy recipes in the fall like these pancakes in a quadruple batch (4 cups pureed squash), these pumpkin muffins in a double batch (up to 3 cups pureed squash), and the butternut spice bars found in the Healthy Lunchbox ebook and our snacks thematic skill lab over at Kids … [Read more...]
HEALTHY Food Stockpile Options: The Best Produce to Stockpile
Having a healthy food stockpile list is essential to any household - but what's a real foodie to do? What are the best fruits and vegetables to stockpile when you don't want preservatives or processed foods? Here is the best food to store up from the produce section: The best food to stockpile is what your family already eats! The best food to stockpile is primarily getting ahead on what your family regularly consumes. In addition to fruits and vegetables, this works really … [Read more...]
The Unexpected Truth You Need About the Dangers of Masks for Our Kids
I'm still sad every single time I see a child wearing a mask. My kids are wearing masks daily for school in person, but this is not the way we were created to be. I tell my kids often: This is temporary. It will end. We're only doing this for a little while to respect others. I don't want masking to be normalized. I don't want people to get used to it, to be boiled like a frog by those in power who miiiiiiight just be trying to figure out exactly how much control they … [Read more...]
Storing Protein, Meats, Beans, Nuts & Oils Long Term
What is the best long term storage food? Storing protein in case of emergency is an important part of your preparedness plan. We'll cover meat storage, how to store meet in the freezer, and best beans for long-term storage. Plus, we'll touch on storing oils and fats. Many of the preparedness food storage solutions for meat are a far cry from a hamburger or a whole chicken simmering gently on the stovetop. They're more likely to have no meat involved or be packed with additives … [Read more...]
Christmas Gifts for the Natural Foodie & Family
What are the best kitchen gifts for Christmas? I've tested all of these foodie gifts for Christmas that will please any cook you love. I hate shopping. If I need new jeans, I'll put it off for as long as I can. Even a shopping trip without children, which should be pure, untouchable bliss, quickly turns sour after a few rejected piles in the fitting room. Now tell me I have a half hour to kill wandering around a health food store, and I'll gladly read ingredients and ogle … [Read more...]
How to Save Money on Grass-fed Meat Shipped to Your Door {ButcherBox REVIEW 2020 & More}
Remember back in March when you could find ZERO ground beef in any stores? It was pretty clear that people were stocking up for the taco/spaghetti diet! :) And...I was uncharacteristically completely out of grass-fed ground beef! I had a touch of food insecurity. I felt so much more relieved (and taco-secure) once I made my ButcherBox order, which I usually do every 3 months to supplement what I can't find at our favorite local farm. Grass-Fed, Pastured, Sustainable … [Read more...]
Organize Your Kitchen Efficiently: Kitchen Organization Hacks You’ll Want to Start Today!
These are the best organization tips for the kitchen I've collected over the years to reorganize a kitchen efficiently. Streamline it with kitchen zones, counter organization, and moving unneeded items out so you can have an efficient kitchen. Today we're going to take a critical look at your kitchen and reorganize for efficiency. Trust me, you will feel so much better. Reorganize Kitchen Efficiently When we moved over a decade ago, I took the most time planning and unpacking the … [Read more...]
Make-Ahead Breakfast: Cherry-Almond Soaked Baked Oatmeal Recipe
I've noticed it takes approximately once for kids to assume something is a tradition. Do anything once, especially near a holiday, and suddenly that is "the way we do it." The kids will expect it every time. Thank goodness, I've been using a simple, make-ahead breakfast for every Christmas and Easter for years. So when my kids think of a holiday with fun gifts showing up in the morning and a really special mass, they will also think of baked oatmeal in many flavors. It's absolutely our … [Read more...]
5 Face Mask Risks You Can Control and the Solutions
Knowledge is everything. The way I wear a mask and what it causes me to do with my nose, my mouth, and my fingers is a complete 180-degree reversal from what masks cause others to do habitually. I believe it's because my brain is inundated with knowledge: I understand the harms of mouth breathing and the risks touching my face, and I appreciate the glorious benefits of the hairs in my nose. And if you think education won't work for kids, think again, at least if we're talking a little … [Read more...]
Easy Homeschool Lunch Ideas for Virtual School, Distance Learning or Homeschooling
Homeschooling. Virtual school. Online learning. Whatever you call the way your kids are learning this year, if they are home all day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you might be running into a problem, like many moms in our community. What do we feed our kids for lunches at home? When the whole family is trying to get some work done, finish virtual school, or, as my recent interview guest, Marcy Pusey said, "trying to learn online," taking a break and preparing food is … [Read more...]
Use Your Leftovers: 30+ Dinner Recipes to Use for Easy School Lunches
When I think about easy school lunches to pack, I know the world would tell me to buy a Lunchable. Not my style. I'd rather go easy by using up leftovers, and I often wish I could just take someone's dinner plate and serve it to them for lunch. That's harder to do with packed lunches for school, but in our family, we've definitely perfected the art form of healthy leftover school lunches. Best Time to Pack a School Lunch I always tell people that when you pack is a key to success. … [Read more...]
How to Keep Your Masks Clean (Including No-Wash Hacks that Take Less Than 5 Minutes!)
In a world where it's hard to get kids to change their underwear or brush their hair regularly, dealing with a new piece of clothing worn directly on the face every day is a big organizational deal for parents! I'm sure some have had no problem incorporating regular mask washing into their routines, but we are all going to have "those mornings"... You know the ones. They used to look like this: "Oh no, we forgot to pack lunches last night and homework is only half done and my … [Read more...]
Teach Your Kids: How to Take a “Mask Break” at School Without Inviting More Germs to Visit Your Face
"What's your favorite part of school so far?" It's the quintessential adult-to-kid question after a week or two of school, so when the orthotropics hygienist asked John this week, I was fully expecting certain 9-year-old boy answers. Most years he might say recess, STEM class experiments, silent reading time, or seeing his friends. Sometimes he comes up with a really fun activity that his creative teacher facilitated in the first week. This year, the infamous 2020? He … [Read more...]
The Truth About Coconut Oil: Is Coconut Oil Good For You?
How do you use coconut oil? Refined or unrefined? Substitute with coconut oil for baking and cooking? Coconut oil is used for personal care like lotion, eye makeup remover, eczema treatment, oil pulling, and more. I could go on about the usefulness of coconut oil. When I first started getting into traditional nutrition, I read about coconut oil. I was surprised how often I ran into it, and I didn't even know what it was (was it liquid or solid???), but I was curious to see if I … [Read more...]
Give Your Pizza a Plant-Based Protein Boost! {Chickpea Pizza Crust}
Chickpea pizza crust is gluten-free, vegan, easy to mix up and handle, and receives literal cheers from the dinner table when I serve it up. Don't wait to give this extra filling, high protein pizza crust a try! Pizza night is every Sunday, much to my children's delight. In fact, if we eat anything else, even everyone's favorite homemade hamburger helper recipe, they feel deprived. I've been using at least a half dozen different pizza crust recipes this year and trying new gluten-free … [Read more...]
Could Your Mask Put YOU at Risk? 8 Doctors Agree on How to Wear a Mask Correctly
Way back in early February, before people in America really knew about the novel coronavirus now called COVID-19, Influenza A and B both went through our elementary school like wildfire. The kindergarten wing was hit particularly hard, and one day when I came in to volunteer with small group centers, more than a third of my son Gabe's class was absent. I finished playing Uno with my four eerily small groups of children and went to tell Gabe goodbye. After sanitizing with the … [Read more...]
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